Senior Splunk Engineer

Overview

On Site
USD 65.00 - 75.00 per hour
Contract - W2

Skills

Financial Services
Migration
Servers
Scratch
Oracle Linux
Finance
Information Security
Scalability
Data Collection
Visualization
Regular Expression
Bash
Scripting Language
Management
Elasticsearch
SIEM
Storage
Scripting
Python
Splunk
Optimization
FOCUS
Taxes
Life Insurance
Business Transformation
Law

Job Details

Our large financial services client is looking for a Splunk Engineer with over 5 years of experience. This role will be hybrid, 2-3 days a week on site in select cities that include Austin, TX - Charlotte, NC - Tempe, AZ - San Diego, CA. This is a 6-month W2 Contract with TEKsystems that has potential to extend or convert.
This company is seeking a Sr. Engineer to join its Information Security department. The primary responsibility of this position is to support the robustness, scalability, and reliability of our Splunk infrastructure. Your expertise will contribute to the seamless operation of our backend systems, enabling efficient data collection, analysis, and visualization. This role will work on a team of 2 others dedicated to ensuring a healthy and scalable Splunk environment.
Top Skills:
  1. Back end Splunk experience ingesting new log resources, dealing with issues from existing ones, etc.
  2. Understanding of development and helping to implement best practices around log ingestions and how those are broken up and extracted
  3. Python, Bash, or other scripting language experience and creating scripts from scratch
  4. Working experience in environments with less than 10 Terabytes of data coming in. People coming from siloed environments may not be the best fit.
  5. Troubleshooting data issues with Splunk, such as identifying PII that is in an app in Splunk knowing how to get PII out of the system and preventing the PII from coming into the system again.
  6. Migrating servers to a new environment - building systems up from scratch - nice to have

Description
Our Financial client is seeking a Sr. Engineer to join its Information Security department. The primary responsibility of this position is to support the robustness, scalability, and reliability of our Splunk infrastructure. Your expertise will contribute to the seamless operation of our backend systems, enabling efficient data collection, analysis, and visualization. This role will work on a team of 2 others dedicated to ensuring a healthy and scalable Splunk environment.
Qualifications
5+ years' experience managing medium to large Splunk environments.
2+ years' experience with regex.
2+ years' experience with Python, Bash, or other scripting language.
Experience setting and managing Splunk infrastructure such as Heavy/Universal Forwarders and deployment/license managers.
Familiarity with Splunk ES and SOAR (Phantom) is beneficial.
Skills
siem, python, splunk enterprise, scripting, Splunk, Security
Top Skills Details
siem,python,splunk enterprise,scripting
Additional Skills & Qualifications
Primary Responsibilities
Optimize search performance, data ingestion pipelines, and storage to handle increasing data volumes.
Troubleshoot and resolve incidents related to Splunk infrastructure.
Provide backend support for Splunk applications, including log collection, indexing, and search.
Develop custom scripts and automation tools using Python or other relevant languages.
Implement or improve processes related to Splunk infrastructure.
Develop or improve resource optimizations through filtering, event pre-processing, and other optimization techniques.
Experience Level
Expert Level
Employee Value Proposition (EVP)
The manager is great, and the team is as well. they are going to have a lot of focus here the next couple of years so a great opportunity for visibility and potential growth
Work Environment
The client is a constantly growing environment, in which they focus heavily on personal and professional growth. Since Security is a focus for 2024 there is a lot of growth opportunity here.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $65.00 - $75.00/hr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job
classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be
subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits
available for this temporary role may include the following:
Medical, dental & vision
Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
Short and long-term disability
Health Spending Account (HSA)
Transportation benefits
Employee Assistance Program
Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Workplace Type
This is a hybrid position in Austin,TX.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on May 16, 2025.

About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services

We're a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We're a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We're strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We're building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
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